Re: Patent on a standard-byte order for intermachine communication

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From: Richard L Jones
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1991 03:17

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I've never had a high opinion of lawyers (like all generalisations,
individuals may be, in fact certainly are, excepted) and I would
cheerfully support abolition of all patents and copyrights, as they
have nothing to do with protecting inventors and authors.  But
what kind of mindless idiots could represent and give the backing of
the law to byte order as an invention?  If I take out a patent for
driving on the left (or the right) shall I then collect royalties
from everyone who obeys my brilliant notion?

Pah!
--
Richard Jones                    Dept of Physics
tel. +61 9 380 2762              University of Western Australia
fax. +61 9 380 1014              Nedlands    W.A. 6009
				 Australia

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